Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for April 21


Anastasius the Sinaite.

Monk. Theologian. Abbot of the Monastery of Mount Sinai. d. ca. 700.

Synax.CP, April 21, par. 1 (cols. 617-8); April 20, Synax. selecta (cols. 615-616).

BiblSS I 1059-61; Holweck 66-7; LCI V 136; ODB 87-8.

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, west wall. April 20. Athanasius?40 Monk. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 214, fig. T III 35; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 50).

Gračanica. South aisle, south wall. Monk. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 297, fig. 27; Todić, Gračanica, p. 103; Živković, Gračanica, fig. IV south wall 17).

SEE ALSO: Januarius of Beneventum, April 20

40 Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 214.